Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken
reassign 207300 humanity
thanks
On pe, 2003-08-29 at 10:36, Adam McKenna wrote:
> Well, since we're pointing fingers, it's really SMTP that's broken by
> design, and all anti-spam programs (including C-R systems) are merely
> stopgap measures that try to make up for SMTP's shortcomings.
The fact that SMTP now needs authentication and what not points at the
real problem: there are greedy and evil people willing to exploit
anything for their personal benefit. In the interest of fixing things
once and for all, that flaw in humanity needs to be fixed. It is not
enough to kill all greedy and evil people, since new ones will be born.
I propose killing all humans and letting the planet be inherited by us
Martians.
On a more serious note, it would be interesting to have a thought
experiment of how an e-mail system could be designed from scratch (no
compatibility with SMTP needed). Debian-devel is not the forum for it,
though.
I develop and maintain one mailing list manager, and it will send
confirmation requests for subscriptions, unsubscriptions, and messages
that will wait for moderation. I'll make it so that it will avoid
sending them if the message that triggered them looks too much like
spam. At least that much good results from this thread. :)
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